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Amusing Ourselves To Survive, 2002.
Discusses the book "Amusing Ourselves to Death", in relation to the television series, "Survivor".
1,150 words (approx. 4.6 pages), 1 source, $ 44.95
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This paper uses Neil Postman's book, "Amusing Ourselves to Death", to analyze and critique the first season of "Survivor," the most popular network "Reality-TV" venture so far.
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Will to Survive, 2005.
Argues that a human's will to survive is instinctive.
2,841 words (approx. 11.4 pages), 7 sources, MLA, $ 84.95
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One of the most valuable human qualities is the will to survive. Case histories of life-threatening situations have demonstrated that stubborn, strong will power is often the key to conquering dangerous conditions. The paper shows, however, that the will to survive also manifests in the human physiology. Hunger, sweating and panic are good examples of anatomical responses to danger. These actions are largely uncontrolled. The paper argues, therefore, that the will to survive is not simply a human trait, it is also an instinct.
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"However, by stopping the sweating mechanism, the body is making a drastic attempt to prevent further water loss by initiating absolute conservation of water. This physiologically-initiated method of survival actually prolongs the person's ability to survive in that it allows him extra time to replenish his fluids. If the body continued sweating, the fluid loss level would reach 15 percent, the blood volume would fall below sustainable levels and the organs would simply die."
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An Argument on Whether it is Possible to Survive Death, 2000.
Approaching the subject of death with a definition of what death is and assuming that identity is necessary to survive death, this essay demonstrates that survival of death is impossible.
2,135 words (approx. 8.5 pages), 5 sources, $ 66.95
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"Throughout history, one of the most pondered questions is ?what is the meaning of life?? Some religions use the notion of an afterlife as a means to obtaining some higher meaning of life. Whether or not this afterlife exists has also been a topic of debate and ponderance for centuries. Some have believed that religion is the opiate of the masses, ?created? solely to keep hope that the post-mortem experience is more fulfilling than earthly existence. It is generally regarded that in order to survive death one must remain them self, in other words, they must retain their identity. But what dictates your identity? Is it your soul? Is it your psychology? Could it be the continued existence of your body? All three of these accounts of identity are popular and offer different explanations for the continuation of self after death. "
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An Inconvenient Truth: Can Humanity Survive Global Warming?, 2008.
An outline of how humanity can survive global warming.
1,119 words (approx. 4.5 pages), 1 source, MLA, $ 38.95
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The following paper briefly outlines how humanity can survive global warming despite its obvious dangers to human beings. Most notably, the paper looks at how human beings contribute to climate change and thus are uniquely qualified among all the Earth's creatures to reverse the destructive trends that are taking place. In a related vein, the paper looks at how climate change threatens human life and the existence of other organisms residing on the planet. The author concludes that although we are at a pivotal moment in history - we can overcome the problems of today with a clear plan for tomorrow.
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"To begin with, Gore's text emphasizes the vulnerability of the Earth upon which we live. Specifically, the Earth's atmosphere is notoriously thin - like a thin coat of varnish spread out over a classroom globe, As Carl Sagan once said (Gore, 22) - and that makes it extraordinarily vulnerable to cosmic forces and to anything humankind might inflict upon it. In particular, Gore argues that human industry is "thickening" the vulnerable atmosphere with carbon dioxide gases that are simply not permitting infrared radiation to escape out into the universe. As a result, the temperature on the Earth's surface is rising steadily, threatening the delicate equilibrium that has allowed human life (and other forms of life) to flourish for so long (Gore, 26-27). The question, then, of whether or not human beings can survive in spite of themselves seems fairly clear; to wit, if we can negatively affect the composition of the atmosphere with our huge manufacturing industries, then we can also positively change the composition of that same atmosphere by embracing environmentally-friendly practices. Seen in that light, human beings really can survive global warming insofar as it lies within our power to change atmospheric conditions for the better."
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Neil Postman's "Amusing Ourselves to Death", 2002.
Reviews and explores how Neil Postman discusses the concept of "the medium is the message" in his book "Amusing Ourselves to Death".
1,571 words (approx. 6.3 pages), 5 sources, MLA, $ 51.95
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This paper discusses Neil Postman's observations, in his book "Amusing Ourselves to Death" about the way television makes us perceive issues, commodities, people and countries. It explores Postman's concept that medium has actually become more important than the message itself,and that the way American television presents information actually breeds ignorance because it turns important issues into nothing but entertainment.
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"Media has a very powerful impact on people, which is the reason its advantages and disadvantages are discussed so very often. With every new technology entering our world, we start wondering just how this would later impact our society, culture, consumer market etc. This is because every medium brings along a message and while we believe that message is more important, some social critics maintain it is the medium, which was more powerful than the message itself. Neil Postman admittedly based his book, Amusing ourselves to Death? on the aphorism. ?Medium is the message? which was coined by media expert Marshall McLuhan in 1959."
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'Amusing Ourselves to Death', 2005.
This paper offers a book review of Neil Postman's 'Amusing Ourselves to Death'.
1,575 words (approx. 6.3 pages), 2 sources, $ 62.95
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In this article, the writer analyzes the book 'Amusing Ourselves to Death' by Neil Postman. Further, the writer looks at this book in comparison to Marshall McLuhan and Quentin Fiore's scope of electric technology in 'The Medium is the Massage'.
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"Neil Postman's 'Amusing Ourselves to Death' could be said to take up where Marshall McLuhan and Quentin Fiore's 'The Medium is the Massage' left off. In one sense Postman's book narrows the focus from McLuhan and Fiore's broader scope of electric technology, down to one specific aspect of electric technology - the television. In another sense Postman may be said to broaden the ambit of his predecessors, as he substitutes "metaphor" for "message", maintaining that the term "message" is too narrow."
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"Amusing Ourselves to Death", 2008.
A book review of Neil Postman's, "Amusing Ourselves to Death".
1,484 words (approx. 5.9 pages), 1 source, MLA, $ 49.95
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The paper critically examines Postman's argument in "Amusing Ourselves to Death" that television is very bad for the cultivation of a thoughtful, rational public that can actually think on its own. The paper posits that, while a well-written text with many good ideas, it is also marred by over-zealousness and by a longing for the past that too often ignores how modern-day technology can actually benefit children whose style of learning may not be well-suited for the "traditional" pedagogical approach.
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Introduction
Synopsis of the book
Analysis
Conclusion
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"Postman begins his book by arguing that, in an increasingly commercialized and visual society, people are now shaped by the strength of their artifice (their appearance) and not by the strength of their ideas (7). The medium that was dominating America in the 1980s - and is even more dominant today, more than 20 years after Postman penned his work - is now a visual, visceral one involving images and iconography instead of words (9). Simply put, our culture no longer privileges the written word but privileges fleeting, evanescent images that come to us through (in most instances) the medium of television."
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"Amusing Ourselves to Death", 2002.
Reviews the book "Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Showbusiness" by N. Postman (1985).
1,775 words (approx. 7.1 pages), 1 source, $ 66.95
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In the following review, this paper will summarize Postman's main arguments and share some of his examples of how television is the dominant mode of conversation and thought in 20th century North America. This paper will also address some of Postman's own unexamined assumptions and consider how these function to prevent Postman from developing a more critical perspective about social agency and intellectual participation, invention and interpretation.
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"Only The Paranoid Survive" by Andrew Grove, 2000.
A review of the work on corporate survival in a highly competitive global environment, based on author's experience as head of Intel.
2,025 words (approx. 8.1 pages), 3 sources, $ 71.95
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"Introduction
Only the Paranoid Survive, by Andrew S. Grove, details the former head of Intel's own philosophy regarding corporate survival in today's highly competitive and global environment. Paranoia, as used by Grove, refers not only to the idea that everyone else may well be out to get you, but that the best way to be prepared for changes in the market is to anticipate those changes. While such ideas may not be radical, they are, according to the author, rarely put into practice in the corporate world. By emphasizing "strategic inflection points" and using examples drawn largely from Intel's own history but also from other real-world companies, Grove offers readers a sense of what it is to anticipate and successfully adapt to change. On a closer reading of his book, however, it becomes clear that Grove's own..."
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Coping Mechanisms to Survive, 2004.
An analysis of the theme of coping mechanisms in Tim O' Brien's, "The Things They Carried".
1,521 words (approx. 6.1 pages), 0 sources, $ 50.95
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This paper examines how, during the Vietnam War, soldiers were not exposed to the traditional coping mechanisms of our American society, as illustrated in Tim O?Brien?s "The Things They Carried". It looks at how these men were forced to discover and invent new ways to deal with the pressures of war, using only the resources they had in the Vietnamese jungle. It was not possible for any soldier to carry many items or burdens with them, but if something was a necessity, a way was found to carry it, and coping mechanisms were a necessity to survive the war.
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"The conditions of war can be enough to drive a person to the edge of insanity, causing him or her to need something personal to bring them back to reality. They were in the war twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week, and the securities that each soldier had were the only things that kept them sane. Lt. Jimmy Cross repeatedly had thoughts and visions of Martha, left at home. He would read the letters she sent him and wonder about her as a tactic to keep him connected with the real world and the life he had left."
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Survival in Words: Why Offred Survives in "A Handmaid's Tale", 2005.
A new critical reading of Margaret Atwood's "Handmaid's Tale". An exploration of what gives society the power to assimilate and control a people.
2,514 words (approx. 10.1 pages), 2 sources, MLA, $ 76.95
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This paper examines how the Gileadean society assimilates and controls its inhabitants by controlling language in the novel by Canadian author, Margaret Atwood. This paper uses a New Critical theory to examine the text of "A Handmaid's Tale" to explore what makes Gilead so effective, and why Offred is able to survive and escape when others, who seem to be stronger, cannot.
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"Another division of communication is the auditory or spoken. The Republic of Gilead, like any other changing society, developed its own specific vocabulary that works effectively to assimilate a people into the culture. The vocabulary ranges from the names of certain events like Prayvaganzas, which are mass weddings, to Salvagings, which are executions, or particutions, which are also executions, but ones in which the Handmaids are able to participate. The vocabulary extends to the names given to the class distinctions within the society: Marthas, Handmaids, Commanders, Guardians, Angels, Aunts and Eyes."
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Elie Wiesel's :Night: The Struggle to Survive", 2000.
2,939 words (approx. 11.8 pages), 5 sources, $ 86.95
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This paper describes Elie Wiesel's account of his days in the concentration camps of the Nazis during WWII. Faith, strong family values, and maturity are the themes portrayed in the essay, as it speaks of Wiesel's survival and of Wiesel's lost family members and innocence.
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How to Say "No" and Survive, 1998.
This paper is a very humorous and creative, laugh-out-loud, short story about "What-I-said/what-I-wish-I'd-said."
1,140 words (approx. 4.6 pages), 0 sources, $ 39.95
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This story presents a common slice of life that can be projected to other situations. The author is waiting for the light to change and next to her is a religious zealot type. The story is fast-paced and written in narration which you can hear in your head. And while the author is going through the narration----the light changes red again!
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"My friend Nancy would have crossed against the light. And if that didn't work, she would snort and start speaking Greek in her Exorcist voice. Rachel would shout "Rape!" at the top of her lungs. John would say "Oh! there's the bat-signal!" and take off running, but no, not me. My mother had to teach me manners. While the other kids just said "No" to Drugs, I had to say "No Thank You."
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Why did the Tsarist regime Survive 1905?, 2001.
An examination of the causes of the 1905 revolution in Russia, how close it came to success, and the reasons for its failure.
2,105 words (approx. 8.4 pages), 4 sources, MLA, $ 66.95
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This essay argues that the Russian revolution of 1905 was a protest against the Tsar's refusal to make political concessions, and that once the concessions were given, the revolution was doomed to failure. It argues that the opposition was disorganized and not united in its objectives, and that generally the people of Russia still revered the Tsar, despite his faults.
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"On 9 January 1905, a worker?s procession in St Petersburg calling for social and political reform was fired upon by panicked troops and two hundred people were killed. A resultant wave of strikes and protests across the country threatened to overthrow the monarchy; indeed, as most of the army was engaged in the war against Japan, the Tsar had little protection. Opposition to the Tsar had been building up for many years, and was made up of a broad range of political groups, including peasants and workers, moderates and revolutionaries, liberals and socialists."
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How to Survive in Business without a Degree, 2002.
This paper asks and attempts to answer the question: Is it necessary for one to have a college degree in order to be successful in business?
1,342 words (approx. 5.4 pages), 8 sources, MLA, $ 45.95
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The writer gives examples of people who have risen to highly successful positions without degrees. The paper also cites companies who do, in fact, look at a person's educational background. Finally, the paper outlines the skills necessary in today's market for reaching success.
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"An evolving and high-demand economy has been instrumental to encouraging hiring decisions based on new initiatives, new markets, new products, new systems of marketing and distribution. People with core competencies and existing technical skills are able, in greater numbers than seen before, to move into responsible positions with existing companies and to begin companies of their own -- with and without college degrees."
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